# The organ plays again on Sunday

> Twelve weeks of tuning and a new blower later, the 1871 organ is back for the autumn Sundays at Four.

Sam Perera, 2026-11-04 · https://handbill.themes.dev/news/the-organ-is-back/

The organ went quiet in August. Not dramatically: a cipher on the swell, a note that would not stop, and then a blower that sounded like a lorry idling under the floor. Twelve weeks later it is back, and Martin Greaves plays it on Sunday 22 November.

## What was done

The organ builders from Bury came for three visits. They replaced the blower with a quieter one in a box we lined with old curtains from the Vestry, re-leathered eleven pallets, and tuned every pipe, all 1,214 of them, over four nights when the Nave was empty.

## What it cost

£14,600, of which the Friends gave £9,000 in five weeks. The rest came from the Sunday at Four audiences, one bucket at a time.

## Come and listen

Sit in the gallery if you want to watch the pedals; the stairs are on the left of the west door. Martin shows what each stop does before he begins.